Descriptive Catalogue of Sanskrit Manuscripts in Madras Vol 22

SR No.: 020207
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: S Kuppuswami Shastri
Publisher: Government of Madras
Publication Year: 1918
Total Pages: 204
Language: English, Sanskrit
Classification: Catalogue
File Size: 11 MB

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THE SANSKRIT MANUSCRIPTS.
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No. 12918. aantociq|156974TATTUrh. PRATAPARUDRIYAVYAKUYÄNAM: RATNĀPANAM. Pages, 6. Lines, 7 on a page.
Begins on fol. 8a of the MS. described under No. 12909. Contains the Nayakaprakaraņa (first) incomplete. Same work as the above.
No. 12919. 971956191671747-aqur. PRATĀPARUDRIYAVYĀKHYANAM: RATNĀPAŅAM. Substance, paper. Size, 105 X 47 inches. Pages, 248. Lines, 10 on a
page. Oharacter, Telugu. Condition, injured. Appearance, old. Breaks off in the Guņaprakarana (sixth). Same work as the above.
No. 12920. HTHEOFIT:.
BHĀMAHĀLANKĀRAH. Substance, paper. Size, 85 x 64 inches. Pages, 16. Lines, 18 on a page.
Character, Telugu. Condition, good. Appearance, new. Complete.
This is an ancient work on poetics and rhetorio by Bhāmaba, son of Rakrilagõmin. According to the first stanza of the work it is called Kávyålarkara. It deals with the following five topics in its six Paricchēdas (vide the stanza following the colophon of the sixth Paricoboda) (1) Kávyaśarīra in 60 stanzas, (?) Alankara in 160 stanzas, (3) Dāņa in 50 stanzas, (4) Nyāya in 70 stanzas and (5) Sabdasuddhi in 60 stanzas. The work has been printed with the help of this MS. as an appendix to the Pratāparudriya in the Bombay Sanskrit Series. The author is mentioned in rhetorical works generally at the top of the list of rhetoricians and is considered by some to be prior to Daņdin, the author of the Kavyadarsa. Bhåmaba is referred to by Mammaţa. Udbbața, Anandavardhana, Vidyānātha and others. He mentions Rāmasarman, þákavardhana, Mēdhāvin, Nyasakāra, eto. Beginning:
प्रणम्य शर्व सर्वज्ञं मनोवाकायकर्मभिः । काव्यालङ्कार इत्येष यथाबुद्धि विधास्यते ॥ धर्मार्थकाममोक्षेषु वैचक्षण्यं कलासु च । प्रीतिं करोति कीर्ति च साधुकाव्यनिबन्धनम् ॥